![]() ![]() The Roots played my Spring Fling senior year at college, and I was a huge fan of the Roots’ albums. L.R.: Lin, did you always want Questlove to be involved with the cast album and this mixtape? L.R.: Now there’ll be a slew of Hamilton imitations. When I first said, ‘hip-hop, Founding Fathers,’ they thought it was a spoof. I thought I would write a bunch of great songs that tell the greatest hits of Hamilton’s life, have artists cover it, and someone else would stage it later. I wanted to write really dense, fun lyrics like my favorite hip-hop artists did. ![]() ![]() I thought of this as a concept album like Jesus Christ Superstar that was an album before it was staged as a show. He also ruined his life using those verbal abilities. LIN-MANUEL MIRANDA: Originally, that’s what my idea was. LISA ROBINSON: What is The Hamilton Mixtape? Here, Miranda and Questlove talk with Lisa Robinson about plans for that album, which will be out this year and will include cover songs from Hamilton as well as original material inspired by the groundbreaking show. Now he’s teaming up with the Roots’ Questlove-who executive-produced the show’s Grammy-winning cast album-for The Hamilton Mixtape. The Tony Award-winning Miranda wrote the book, music, and lyrics, and stars in the hip-hop musical about Founding Father Alexander Hamilton. “I really wanted the hip-hop community to embrace Hamilton because it’s such a love letter to them,” says Lin-Manuel Miranda about the biggest and most original hit musical on Broadway in decades. ![]()
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